WASHINGTON - When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in an unlikely lineup that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Progressives applauded Roberts' statesmanship. Conservatives uttered cries of betrayal. Now, the Supreme Court is embarking on a new term beginning Monday that could be as consequential as the last one, with the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide the extent to which public schools can use race in deciding school assignments, setting the stage for a landmark affirmative action ruling. Justices will hear appeals from a Seattle parents group and a Kentucky parent, ruling for the first time on diversity plans used by a host of school districts around the country.
The Court's opinions in the 2003 affirmative action cases reflected a marked level of deference to an institution of higher education, but does this extend to primary and secondary schools? The author notes that most university employees cannot rely on professional standards to predict violence, universities cannot reliably predict rampage killings, and universities may not be able to take reasonable steps to prevent rampage killings.
In 2003 -we were all pleased that 65 companies had filed or -were signatories to legal briefs submitted to the US. Supreme Court for two affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan. Has list represented the who's who of corporate America and they were applauded for touting a stand in these important cases. After Ae court's decision, there was a general consensus that the employer briefs, along with the briefs from military officers, played a role in convincing the court regarding the importance of diversity. Some of these companies included Chevron Texaco Corp., Pfizer, Inc., Xerox Corp., and Philip Morris. What hasn't been discussed in ate mainstream media or even within the professional EEO/affirmative action organizations is the fact that many of the same companies...
Gay marriage Today the court will hear arguments on California's ban on same- sex marriage; Wednesday it will take up the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which specifies that the government will only recognize heterosexual marriages.
Changes in admissions policies in California, Texas, and other states coupled with recent affirmative action cases have caused many institutions to reexamine their admission policies. Noble and Sawyer of ACT offer the results of a recent study comparing the accuracy of using high school GPA and ACT Composite score for predicting successively higher levels of achievement of first-year college GPA.
As President Barack Obama prepares to formally launch his reelection campaign and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney continues to stump, expect the Supreme Court to be a major campaign issue. Two very high profile cases - the challenge to the federal health care law and the challenge to the Arizona immigration law authorizing local and state police with immigration enforcement powers - will be decided before the election, reminding voters of how important the Court is. And equally headline-grabbing cases - dealing with affirmative action in colleges and perhaps California's same-sex marriage ban and the Defense of Marriage Act - lie on the horizon for the justices to take up next term.
I stood at the doctor's, side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the fac...
..., is slated to hear a number of high profile cases this fall, including one involving partial-birth a...
[Roger Clegg] added that, "even in the best-case scenario," it was unlikely that the Supreme Court would overturn, just four years later, its rulings in two University of Michigan affirmative action cases that -held that there was a-compelling governmental interest in promoting racial diversity in America's colleges and universities. [Ted Shaw] said the effort to overturn affirmative action programs - an effort led by Clegg and others - is a "broad ideological attack" that "rests upon the premise that anything that is race-conscious is racist and should be unconstitutional" - including all efforts to address the historical discrimination that has injured African Americans in the past. Scholarship programs for minority students; pipeline programs for corporate America; even programs cre...
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